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Institute for Constitutional Studies

SUNY Ulster founded the Institute for Constitutional Studies to help college faculty,
students, teachers, business people, the legal community and the general public in
the Mid-Hudson Valley deepen their understanding of the fundamental principles of
the United States and the New York state constitutions, their history and their continuing
relevance to current public policy debates. The event is free and open to the public.
For information, contact 687-5262.

SPRING 2015

SUNY Ulster’s Institute for Constitutional Studies will host a lecture on “Finding the Framers: Making Sense of the Constitution after Ratification,” featuring Dr. Simon Gilhooley, on March 24, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., in the College Lounge.

Gilhooley, Bard College Assistant Professor of Political Studies, was educated at
the University of Edinburgh, the University of London and Cornell University. He has
been a member of the Bard College faculty since 2013, teaching courses on contemporary
American politics, American political history, American political thought and constitutional
practice.

Before joining the Bard faculty, Gilhooley taught at Ithaca College. His research
has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the McNeill Center for Early American Studies.

SUNY Ulster President Don Katt and Dr. Ray Raymond, Associate Professor of Government and History at SUNY Ulster, founded the Institute for Constitutional Studies in 2009 to help College faculty, students, teachers, business people, the legal community
and the general public in the Mid-Hudson Valley deepen their understanding of the
fundamental principles of the United States and the New York state constitutions,
their history and their continuing relevance to current public policy debates.

The event is free and open to the public. For information, contact (845) 687-5262.

FALL 2014

Institute for Constitutional Studies

Author Richard Bernstein on "John Adams and James Madison as Constitutional Thinkers"

Thursday Sept. 187 p.m.College Lounge, Vanderlyn Hall

Revisiting two key American founding fathers, New York Law School professor and New
York Times best-selling author, Richard Bernstein explores both John Adams and James
Madison as the indispensable thinking politicians of the American Revolution.

The annual horticultural series is made possible through a bequest received by the
Ulster Garden Club from long-time member and Kingston resident, Elizabeth Gross. In turn, the Ulster Garden Club made a charitable gift to the Ulster Community College
Foundation, Inc. to establish the lecture series in her honor. The series presents
expert lecturers in the fields of horticulture, floriculture, landscape design, forestry,
city planning, land management, botany, conservation and environmental studies.

Spring 2015: Carol Gracie

Ulster Community College Foundation, Inc.presentsThe Elizabeth Gross Lecture SeriesSponsored by the Ulster Garden Club

Carol Gracie will address life histories of some favorite spring wildflowers and the interaction
of pollinators and seed dispersers. Retired from The New York Botanical Garden, Ms. Gracie has made dozens of trips to South and Central America as a tour leader
and for botanical collecting expeditions, resulting in five newly discovered tropical
plant species named for her. Returning to her earlier interest in local flora, she
is the photographer and co-author of Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: A Field Guide to the Northeastern United States.

Her latest book is Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History.

For reservations, contact the Foundation office at (845) 687-5283.

A book signing and afternoon tea will follow the lecture. Books will be available
for purchase at the event.